BE FIRST. BE THE PIONEER.

The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition Story

Who are the pioneers? They are the ones who have cured diseases and strengthened our bodies. They work to heal our planet and explore new ones. They work to undo mankind’s mistakes and protect the next generation from making them again. Harnessing science to fuel creativity, and employing creativity to drive science. They pursue an unerring, unwavering path towards their goals. There are no barriers, no compromises. They are people who see boundaries as starting lines, and who risk everything in pursuit of innovation. They are the early adopters, the people whose passion is to pursue what is new and different. Their achievements won’t be measured in days, weeks or even years. They’ll be measured in centuries.

Empower Scientists to Explore New Frontiers

Training techniques used today on neural networks in machine intelligence and deep learning applications have become very complex and require the handling of massive amounts of data when training those networks to recognize patterns within that data. This requires lots of floating point computation spread across many cores, and traditional CPUs can’t handle this type of computation as efficiently as GPUs handle it. The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition, combined with our ROCm open software platform, paves the way for pioneers to continue pushing boundaries in fields like AI. Developers can now leverage the power of “Vega” architecture to do machine learning algorithm development on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics card before deploying it out to massive servers equipped with Radeon Instinct accelerators.

Harness Vega to Fuel Creativity

Design visualization is playing an increasingly important role in helping manufacturers streamline design to manufacture workflows.  Advanced technologies, including real-time visualization, physically-based rendering and virtual reality (VR), give design and manufacturing firms a powerful arsenal of visualization tools that can be used at all stages of product development. The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card provides the necessary performance required to drive these increasingly large and complex models through the design phase as well as rendering phase of product development.  In the media and entertainment market, tasks like video editing, animation, post-production, and virtual reality (VR), require high-end graphics to support these workloads.  They depend on compute speed and driver reliability more than ever for shorter load and rendering times.  Closer partnerships with top software makers helps pair reliability with the raw power offered by our new Vega GPU architecture.

No Barriers. No Compromises.

Game development is a creatively demanding, time-intensive process and any solution that can streamline game design workflows is an extremely valuable benefit for developers. The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card will simplify and accelerate game creation by providing a single GPU that is optimized for every stage of their workflow, from asset production, to playtesting, to performance optimization. With AMD graphics technology found in many of today’s game consoles and PCs, developers can build and optimize next generation games for a large install base on the latest graphics technologies from AMD.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

“Vega” GPU Architecture

The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card was the first to feature AMD’s cutting edge “Vega” GPU architecture, purpose-built to handle big data sets and a diverse range of computational workloads.

Up to 13.1 TFLOPS of peak single-precision floating-point performance

Tremendous compute power to speed up professional applications where high performance is paramount, from rendering video effects to visualizing complex simulations.

64 Next-Generation Compute Units (nCUs, 4096 Stream Processors) with support for double-rate 16-bit math

New compute unit design provides super-charged pathways to provide double the processing throughput when using 16-bit data types, accelerating demanding workloads including image/video processing, ray tracing, and artificial intelligence.

OpenCL™ 2.0 Support

Enables professionals to tap into the parallel computing power of modern GPUs and multi-core CPUs to accelerate compute-intensive tasks in leading CAD/CAM/CAE and Media & Entertainment applications that support OpenCL.

Be the Pioneer in Game Development

The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics card is designed to simplify and accelerate game creation by providing a single GPU that is optimized for every stage of this workflow, from asset production, to playtesting, to performance optimization.

When creating assets and working with game development tools, developers can take advantage of the professional application performance and rock-solid reliability of Radeon™ Pro Software to help ensure maximum stability and productivity when using tools like Autodesk® Maya®, Unity®, and Unreal® Engine.

To playtest and optimize the gaming experience, the exclusive ability of the Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition to switch from Radeon™ Pro Settings to Radeon™ Settings and back with a couple of clicks enables rapid switching between software features for faster iteration during development workflows.

When in “Gaming Mode” the full suite of gaming features of Radeon™ Software are made available, including Radeon™ Chill 5 and Radeon™ WattMan 6.

Game developers can also use the wealth of no-cost open development tools and software found on GPUOpen.com to optimize their next-generation gaming experiences for the pinnacle of AMD graphics technology.

Be the Pioneer in Visualization

Radeon™ ProRender is AMD’s powerful physically-based rendering engine that lets creative professionals use open industry standards to leverage GPU and CPU performance to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Plug-ins and add-ins are freely available for Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya®, Blender™, and SOLIDWORKS®.

The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition provides the necessary compute performance required to maximize Radeon™ ProRender’s rendering capabilities, including rendering in near real-time to see changes as they are made, and allows creative professionals to produces rapid, accurate, and scalable rendering results from previz to final.

Radeon™ ProRender’s scalable ray tracing engine is built on industry-standard OpenCL™ and allows the simultaneous use of the compute capabilities of multiple Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards to handle the demands of more complex scenes.

Furthermore, Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition’s revolutionary Memory Engine when combined with Radeon™ ProRender enables the rendering of assets that would normally be restricted by the confines of the limited VRAM of other graphics cards.

Be the Pioneer in Virtual Reality

Professional workflows are being revolutionized by advanced technologies such as real-time game engines and VR, boosting creativity, enhancing collaboration, and accelerating creative decisions. In addition, a new breed of in-VR content creation tools are making 3D content creation more accessible, simplifying the creation of the next-generation of immersive content.

One such workflow is being able to import an asset from a traditional 3D content creation application into a game engine for visualization in VR while still retaining all its properties, including materials and lighting. The Radeon™ ProRender Game Engine Importer, currently in beta, enables this by enabling the easy import of geometry and materials into game engines, where it can then be viewed in VR.

Another is the use of in-VR content creation tools such as Google Tilt Brush, MasterpieceVR, Oculus Medium, Unity® software’s EditorVR tool, and Unreal Engine’s VR Editor that have many advantages over traditional design tools due to the incredibly intuitive nature of virtual reality, enabling true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) VR content creation workflows.

The Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition provides an ideal VR experience for the above workflows, with its performance being able to optimize the benefits provided by Unreal Engine’s VR-optimized Forward Renderer, the integration of AMD LiquidVR™ technology, and support for Oculus’ Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW) and SteamVR’s Asynchronous Reprojection technologies.

For 360 video, the combination of Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition and Radeon™ Loom enables filmmakers to stitch 360 video in real-time at up to 8K x 4K. Then when compositing visual effects (VFX) into the stitched 360 footage, the combination of the Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition and tools such as Mettle SkyBox for Affect Effects simplifies and accelerates this complex workflow.